I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

Foz Meadows, A Strange and Stubborn Endurance:( fantasy h/c )
M.A. Carrick, The Mask of Mirrors (book 1 of Rook and Rose):( fantasy and grifting )
Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt: ( So many warnings for this take on  )
Greg Van Eekhout, ( three books set in an alternate California where magic comes from eating bones )


Kai Butler, Wormwood Summer: ( cute urban m/m paranormal )
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau: ( really good retelling )
India Holton, The League of Gentlewoman Witches: ( more flying houses and gentlewoman adventurers )
Tasha Suri, The Oleander Sword: ( epic magic struggle continued )
The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales, eds. Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe: ( Naomi Novik, Max Gladstone, Daryl Gregory, Genevieve Valentine, and many more )

Beforeigners is an HBO show set in Norway, 7 years after people from earlier time periods started appearing in numbers. Meret turned me on to it and it is amazing. Not only are there a ton of witty details about what life would be like, it also has a charismatic lead and some interesting things to say both about (1) immigration/anti-immigrant sentiment and (2) how people get inured to previously unbelievable and you-would-have-thought-intolerable situations, which has obvious relevance to the current situation. People are arriving from a thousand years ago! Ugh, is that still happening? The female lead was a Viking (but we don't use that term any more) shieldmaiden, and warriors aren't supposed to become police officers, so she just told them she was a farmwife, and they had no idea how to evaluate that claim so they believed her. Does have police work, but not US police work, so I hope it's tolerable?

My daughter and I also powered through the new She-Ra, which was great (though I think I still like Steven Universe better). Next up: new season of Lucifer, then probably Legend of Korra.


Veronica Roth, The Chosen Ones: ( after the victory )
K.M. Szpara, Docile: ( slavefic )
T. Kingfisher, A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking: ( weaponized dough )
Stephen King, If It Bleeds: ( story collection/more Holly Gibney )
The Year’s Best Science Fiction 2019, ed. Jonathan Strahan. ( Good stuff )
Tasha Suri, Empire of Sand: ( desert magic )
Edited By, ed. Ellen Datlow: ( prolific editor )
Best of British Fantasy 2019: ( horror creeps into fantasy )
K.B. Wagers, A Pale Light in the Black: ( space adventure with games )
K.B. Wagers, After the Crown:( gunrunner turned Empress )
Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft:( mysterious keys )